jebo-robustness
Use when a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) result may be fragile to demand effects, multiple comparisons, specification, or tuning. Organizes robustness by the behavioral threat each check addresses — for experiments, observational designs, and simulations; it does not redesign the identification or write the prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jebo-robustness --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Robustness Strategy (jebo-robustness) ## When to trigger - An experiment has several treatment arms / outcomes and you have not corrected for multiplicity - A referee could attribute the effect to **experimenter demand**, confusion, or order effects - An observational result moves with controls, sample windows, or estimator choice - An agent-based result might be an artifact of grid, seed, or tuning choices - You have a long, unstructured "robustness" appendix and no map from check to threat ## Organize robustness by behavioral threat, not by appendix list At JEBO the right question is never "did we run enough checks?" but "for each way this could *not* be the behavioral mechanism, did we show it survives?" Build a threat → check map. The threats differ sharply across the four archetypes. ### Experiments (lab/online/field) | Threat | Check JEBO referees expect | |--------|----------------------------| | Experimenter demand | demand-treatment bounds (de Quidt-style), neutral framing, obfuscated objective | | Multiple comparisons | pre-registered primary outcome; MHT correction (Romano–Wolf, List–Shaikh–Xu, BH) across arms/outcomes | | Comprehension / confusion | results hold among
- When to trigger
- Organize robustness by behavioral threat, not by appendix list
- Experiments (lab/online/field)
- Observational behavioral empirics
- Simulation / agent-based
- Distinguish "the effect is real" from "the mechanism is the claimed one"
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jebo-robustness skill do?
Use when a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) result may be fragile to demand effects, multiple comparisons, specification, or tuning. Organizes robustness by the behavioral threat each check addresses — for experiments, observational designs, and simulations; it does not redesign the identification or write the prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jebo-robustness --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.